It actually really bugs me that GCH doesn't have a matching thing, b/c it makes a collection impossible, or rather, makes a matched collection impossible. Yeah, THAT is why I haven't stayed there, that's it....
Always wondered what staff does with bottles that are left. After ending up with something like 10 bottles in two stays...I'm over collecting the bottles (until GCH makes mouse-ear ones). Well, not totally true. I love the lotion they make! But the shampoo stinks and the conditioner is useless and stinks. IMO.
Anyway, the lotion is good so I'll still snag that, but I do not need more shampoo/conditioner, LOL. But then, sitting on my bathroom counter in ever-growing rows is better than in the garbage...
I know - the GCH is so unlike the other 2 DLR hotels in theming and is much more subtle in its Mickey-fication, as you know, that they don't have the cute ears bottles. We were robbed!
My friend actually did not care for scent of the H20 Spa products in the GCH, but I think a lot of other folks like it. I prefer the cute Mickey bottles, though, and I was so thrilled when PPH got them last year (I thought that DLH was going to have them exclusively) that I actually squealed with delight when I saw them in the bathroom.
The PPH had those other bottles - the red, white and black things - for SO long, and the DLH used to have them as well, and they were old and tired. They needed something new and fresh, and I think the ears bottles were the perfect 'Disney' touch.
According to my friend who used to work in hospitality, that is what hotels are
supposed to do with bath products - if a guest leaves a full set behind "for the next guest," the housekeeping is supposed to consider them as being used and toss the full bottles left behind by the previous guest and put out fresh ones for the new guests. They do that because they can't be 100% certain that maybe a drop or two of the lotion or of the shampoo was not used, even if the bottle
seems full, and also the steam/moisture from the shower softens and may shrivel up any small paper boxed products (like shower cap boxes or sewing kit boxes) in the bathrom as well. So it's just easier for them to put an all new set in there. I can only assume the housekeeping staff at the DLR hotels does the same thing, but there have probably been many occasions where a guest thought they were doing a nice thing by leaving their set for the next guests, but in actuality, those poor little Mickey heads will end up in the garbage (unless Mousekeeping keeps them themselves, which would not surprise me).
These are just about the cutest things in the planet!! OMG!! I would totally hoard them too if I had the opportunity! If you're letting a set go, I would absolutely love to take them off your hands!!!!
This friend of mine who wanted my one remaining extra set was supposed to be coming out here this year (at which time I was going to give the bottles to her), but now that the plans seem to have been scrapped, I have to double check to see if she still wants them. I reminded her before, "If you don't want these Mickey bottles, there are plenty of people on my Disney message board who want them..." And she insisted she wanted them. So I have to check again, but if she does not take them, then they will be up for grabs and you can have them! Actually, with any luck, hopefully I will be back at the PPH sometime in the next 2 - 4 months and I can hoard more of them for everybody and post about it on the DIS!
